Mark Blevis
Mark Blevis is an independent producer, public speaker, social media strategist and community leader. By far his favourite label is Content Paleontologist, which describes his approach to editing and production. In his Utopian dream, we're all creating amazing audio programs in our own ivory towers.

Alessandro Bosetti
is a composer and sound artist. He works on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication and produced text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves on the line between sound anthropology and composition often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews often build the basis for his abstract compositions along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies,trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. Since he's curious about differences he travels. Just in 2006 he's been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy.

Chris Brookes
is a Canadian independent radio producer whose documentary features have won international awards and been broadcast around the world. He's based in St. John's on the hill where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal in 1901, and was recently honoured with the Audio Luminary award at the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Hank Bull
is an artist based in Vancouver. He was trained as a painter and musician in the late 1960s, but soon began to explore the possibilities of film and performance. In 1973 he joined the Western Front, an artist-run centre for experimental art. There he became involved in radio, video, performance and telecommunications art. In collaboration with Patrick Ready, he produced a weekly show of original radio art which ran for eight years in the 1970s. Hank Bull was also one of the contributors to Radio Rethink published in 1994. Over the last thirty years he has collaborated with artists from all over the world, travelling widely and organizing cultural exchange projects. This led to the creation of a new project in 1999, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A), of which he is now the executive director.

Hector Centeno
is technical assistant and webmaster at NAISA. He is a sound artist, music composer and multimedia producer (video/web/graphics). He first composed exclusively for instrumental chamber music ensembles but since 2004 his work has been devoted to the sonic arts, transforming soundscapes and other recorded sounds. His work is inspired mainly in the practices of Zen and it's ways of approaching art creation and reality through meditation, searching for a good balance between spontaneous, intuitive expression and rationality. He is also interested in sound design for theater and film, in multichannel sound spatialization and in Open Source software. His electroacoustic pieces have been performed at the Sounds Electric '05 festival in Ireland, Sound Travels and Sound Play festivals in Toronto, Nuit Blanche festival, Concordia University in Montreal and as part of the AngelusNovus.net composers collective at other venues in Toronto.

Darren Copeland
is is a sound artist who creates work for radio, performance, and installation with a focus on soundscape composition and multichannel spatialization. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of New Adventures in Sound Art. Copeland received a BA in Music from Simon Fraser University where he studied with Barry Truax and his Masters of Music (Composition) from the University of Birmingham where he studied with Dr. Jonty Harrison. His works have been commissioned and presented worldwide (ZKM, Kunstradio, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Réseaux, La Muse en Circuit, Kryptonale, and Open Ears), received mentions at competitions (New York Festivals, Phonurgia Nova, Vancouver New Music, Luigi Russolo, etc). His works are available on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

Andrea Dancer
is poet, radio feature producer (MFA) and scholar (Ph.D Candidate) working in acoustic ecology, sociology, and poetry/sound-based research. She teaches and publishes across disciplines; her features air on CBC's Ideas, NPR and internationally (Radio Prague). She is affiliated with the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology and World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

Victoria Fenner
is a writer and media artist. For the past two decades she has worked in both community radio in Canada and the United States and with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She takes a creative approach towards sound making, using her microphone to gather sounds and her computer to organize them in ways which reflect the way she hears the world . In addition to her own compositions, she has also created sound art anthologies of artists across Canada which have been played on radio stations across the world.

Anna Friz
is a sound and radio artist, and a critical media studies scholar. She has performed and exhibited installation works at festivals and venues across North America, Europe, and in Mexico. Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Mexico, and heard on independent airwaves in more than 15 countries. Anna Friz is a free103point9.org transmission artist, and a doctoral candidate in the Communications and Culture Joint program at York University, Toronto.

Paul Ingles
has been in broadcasting since 1975 and has experience as a producer, news and sports reporter, recording engineer, editor, on-air personality, trainer and manager. Paul has worked at radio and television stations in North Carolina, Washington, DC, Ohio and New Mexico. More recently, as an independent radio producer, he has filed reports for NPR news magazines and NPR newscasts as well as numerous other public radio programs including Justice Talking, On The Media, Living on Earth, The Splendid Table, National Native News, Weekend America and Pacifica Network News.Paul is president of both the non-profit Good Radio Shows, Inc. and Cedar Creek Studios, Inc. He is also under contract with NPR as its Liaison to Independent Producers.

Tetsuo Kogawa
has been focusing on radio transmissions from free radio to radioart —aside from being a professor in the department of communication studies at TKU (Tokyo Keizai University), the director of the Goethe Archive Tokyo, and a prolific writer on media philosophy, information technology, film works, and various contemporary themes.

Brandon LaBelle
is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural narratives. He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, Phantom Radio, was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany, and his Prototypes for the Mobilization and Broadcast of Fugitive Sound was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello gallery, Prato in 2007. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006) and co-editor of Radio Territories (Errant Bodies Press, 2007).

Kevin Matthews
is Executive Director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association. He became involved in community-based media at UMFM, the University of Manitoba campus station in 1999, and at the Manitoban in 1996. Also a performance poet and visual artist, Kevin believes culture matters most when we create our own.

Andra McCartney
is a soundwalk artist, who works with her own field recordings to create works that explore the social ecology of soundscapes. Her sound works are available on CD anthologies produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (Montréal), Terra Nova (MIT), Musicworks (Toronto), Deep Wireless (Toronto), Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production (Ottcation Studies at Concordia University, teaching

Emmanuel Madan
co-founded [The User] in 1998 http://theuser.org/. Drawing on a long background in community radio, he devotes part of his artistic practice to radio interventions. Past works include FREEDOM HIGHWAY http://freedomhighway.org/ 2002-4, A Series Of Broadcasts Addressing the Limitlessness of Time which aired weekly on CKUT-FM in Montréal 2006-7, and the experimental multi-channel transmission work The Joy Channel (with Anna Friz, 2007-8). Madan recently curated SIMULCAST 1.0b : Saskatoon, which invited four sound artists to create unchanging radio broadcasts.

Paolo Pietropaolo
is a radio producer, sound designer and musician. His work for CBC Radio has been honoured with a Peabody Award, the Prix Italia, the Third Coast Festival Director's Choice Award and three consecutive New York Festivals Gold Medals for Editing.

Hélène Prévost
is a sound artist, musician and radio producer. At Radio-Canada (1977-2007), she produced : Musique actuelle and Navire Night, two programs in the field of new music, free improv and experimental music. She has a practice of sound exploration and has participated to a number of live performances, contributions on cd, and has written articles for Musicworks, Artexte, Esse, Circuit.

Iain Reid
his work has appeared on several CBC Radio shows, including, DNTO, Go, and Metro Morning. His Outfront documentary, The Silence of the Lambs, was selected for the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival. His writing has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Iceland Review and Atlantica Magazine.

Tom Roe
is a sound transmission artist sometimes known as DJ Dizzy. He co-founded online/microradio station free103point9 in Brooklyn and the Wave Farm, a 30-acre facility in Acra that serves as a study center, retreat, and avant-music performance site. Roe performs with transmitters and receivers using multiple bands, as well as prepared CDs, vinyl records, and various electronics. He creates radio soundscapes using locally available frequencies, often to the beat of manipulated pop song samples.

Neil Sandell
is a renaissance man behind whose quiet, even mysterious demeanour lies a bustling grab bag of former incarnations. Here we have a "Reach for the Top" whiz kid (now pitied by his old team mates with their corner offices and six figure salaries); a former teacher; a former professional photographer; a former playwright (and yes, in his dim and distant Winnipeg days Neil's script did beat out one penned by a lady called Carol Shields). All these past lives unified only by his abiding love for dogs. But we have questions. Why is his nickname The Hammerþ Why does he eat the same lunch every day, out of the same bowlþ And is it true that he yearns to be hired as an advisor by the Spanish government to organise a "running of the pugs" in Pamplonaþ No bull!

Sue Schardt
is Executive Director of the Association of Independents in Radio. AIR's extensive professional/social network of 750 audio-makers extends across 44 US states and 11 countries worldwide, and includes a spectrum of leading pubradio journalists, sounds artists, and new media pioneers working independently and at leading stations and networks.

Kristen Roos
his work usually involves a translation, or change, from one state to another. Objects normally used to bring information in a particular way are repurposed, and reconstructed into new vibrating forms. These temporary structures hope to inspire in nite interpretations for the objects and spaces that make up the world around us. His work has been played on experimental radio programs internationally, and exhibited in artist-run centers, festivals, and conferences such as - Imperialism and the Everyday (UVic) nationally. He has completed a BFA at Concordia University and an MFA at the University of Victoria.

Gregory Whitehead
writes and produces plays and documentary essays for the BBC and other broadcasterwildness emrss. His most recent work, Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Dick, explores our seemingly bottomless need to hunt violent phantoms in the name of God, as inspired by the last novels of PKD.

Marian van der Zon
founded and runs a low powered radio station (TAR: Temporary Autonomous Radio) and teaches in the Media Studies and Women's Studies departments at Vancouver Island University. She is an artist working in the genres of audio art, sound documentary, music, and writing. Marian has contributed sound documentaries and audio art to sound festivals, community radio, and CBC Radio 1, and is the co-editor of an upcoming anthology, Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada.